Letter-card.



PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905. w. 120mm).

LETTER (mm).

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1904.

JMQW

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed January 4:, 1904. Serial No. 187,664.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILHELM LEOPOLD, a subject of the German Emperor,and a resident of Stuttgart, Germany, have invented a Letter-Card, ofwhich the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to a particular form and arrangement of aclosing-flap for lettercards.

For a single sheet of note-paper the closing-flap is disposed upon onlyone of the four sides of the sheet of note-paper along one of theshorter ones. When it is required for a double or triple sheet ofnote-paper, the closing-flap occupies only the half or the third of thelength of that side.

As seen from the annexed drawing, the sheet of paper g it .9 p isfurnished with a band a g 10f, which may be torn off. This band is alsoprovided with a gummed flap a?) e (Z corresponding to the width of thenotepaper when folded. This flap, after the letter is folded, is bentover and stuck upon the band a g 70 f, folded with the letter andconstituting the extension thereof.

The letter is folded in the following manner: The sheet is first foldedalong the line 6 0, to be then folded over the side opposite to thatintended to receive the address, then along lines on 72. 0 and aid.Finally, one of the lateral portions of the letter is inserted under theother by causing lg e to slide under 0 Z zf. The letter is then closedin the usual way by means of the gummed flap to Z) 0 (Z and will thenassume the shape shown by the letters cm a (Z. The sheet of note-paperis preferably perforated along the line r 7': to facilitate tearing offthe closing. WV hen it is desired to open the letter, the closing part ch 2' (Z is torn off along the perforated line, so that the letter willas sume the shape it on w. d. The letter is then unfolded and Willassume the form of an ordinary letter g 7) s It.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a letter-card a main body having the form of an ordinary letter-sheetand adapted to be folded first from below upon the upper half and thenfrom the left to the right and from the right to the left upon themiddle portion, the side parts thus produced being intended to beinserted one between the other, a band detaehably connected to the upperedge of the main body and adapted to be folded with the latter from theleft to the right and from the right to the left upon its middleportion, and a gummed flap secured to the middle portion of the saiddetachable band and adapted to be folded and stuck upon the closing-bandwhen the letter-card is folded, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

WILIIIGLL l: LEOPOLD. Witnesses l/VM'. Il um, ERNST ENTEMIAN.

